Paper box



(No Model.)

F. M. OVIATT.

PAPER BOX.

No. 340,058'. y PatentedApr. 13, 1886.

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FRANK M. OVIATT, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

PAPER BOX.

lE?JSCIFICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,058, datedApril 13, 1886.

Application filed August 17, 1885. Serial No. 174,580.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. Ovnirr, of Birmingham, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in PaperBoxes 5 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference .markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specication, and represent,in-

Figure l, the blank as cut ready to. be set up; Fig. 2, a perspectiveview of a part of the box, illustrating the manner of setting up; Fig.3, a view of a portion of the box as set up, showing the interlockingdevices enga-ged Fig. li, a transverse section of the box set up,through the tongues a c; Fig. 5, a Vertical central section through oneof the tongues e; Fig. 6, a perspective view of the open box complete.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of paper boxeswhich are cut with the sides, ends, and bottom in a single piece, andadapted to be bent into box shape and scoured without paste, and so thatthe blanks from which the boxes are made may be furnished to the tradefiat and set u p by consumers as required, and so that a great saving ismade in transportation and storage over what would be the case were theboxes shipped and stored in the set-up condition, the object of theinvention being the construction of the larger class of boxes, such asused for shoes,cor sets, &c., and which are usually provided withremovable covers, but adapted to boxes of various sizes and for variouspurposes where a removable coveris desirable, or for open boxes withouta cover; and the invention consists in the peculiar eut of the blank, ashereinafter described, and adapted to be set up into box shape.

In Fig. l I show the blank as cut from the sheet complete and ready tobe set up. Broken lines indicate the scores for bending, and solid linesindicate the cuts.

A is the bottom of the box, upon each side of which is one side, B,ofthe box, and at each end of the bottom portion is one end, C, of thebox. Each side .has an extension, D,

at each end. On each side ot1 the ends, and

(No model.)

about midway, a tongue, a, is formed, here shown as semicircular inshape, and at each end of each side a cut, b, is made transversely onthe score-line between the sides and their extensions. This cut b inlength corresponds to the width of the tongues a. Near the outer edge ofeach extension a longitudinal slit, d, is cut, extending from thescore-line outward. Each end is constructed with a longitudinalextension, E, having tongues e projecting therefrom, each tonguecorresponding to one of the slits d in the extensions of the two sides.This completes the blank. It is set up by bending the sides B B upwardfrom the bottom, and turning the extensions D inward, as seen in Fig. 2.

The length of the two extensions should be such as to substantially meetat the center. Then the end C is turned up against the two extensions,the tongues a passed inward through the slits b, and then the flap Eturned inward and over the extensions, the tongues e e inserted throughthe slits d d, as seen in Figs. 3 and '5. The tongues a are turned backagainst the inside ofthe extensions D, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4.

The flap covers the upper edge of the extensions D D, and so as to givea neat nish to the ends, and also add great strength to the box.

Thus constructed, the box is very strong and firm, substantially as muchso as if the parts were pasted together as in a pasted box.

The cover, if one be desired, is made like the box, and the blank, Fig.l, may be considered as the cover for a telescopic box, it only beingnecessary to make the blank so much larger than the body of the box asto permit it to pass over the box.

IVhile I prefer the tongues a a on each side of the end portions toenter the corresponding slits, b,in the sides, and particularly so inboxes of considerable depth, they may be omitted, the flap, with itstongues engaged with the respective extensions of the sides, affordingsufficient support to secure the box in its set-up position; and while Iprefer the iiap E to turn over the extensions and form a iinish at theend of the box, the tongues may extend directly from the end of the box,as indicated in broken linesff at the right of Fig. l..

The blanks may be cut and furnished to IOC dealers and consumers and setup as required, and may, if occasion require, be opened and returned tothe fiat condition.

This construction of box is particularly desirable for shoes andcorsets, where it has been the more general practice to make the boxesrigid and pasted, as by it a great bulk is saved both in transportationand storage of the empty boxes.

I claim- The blank consisting` of the bottom portion, A, side portions,B B, and end portions, C C, the said side portions, B, constructed Witha projection, D, at each end, the said projections having a longitudinalslit, d, formed in each, and the transverse slit b on the line betweenthe sides and their respective extensions, the end portions constructedwith trans-V versely-projecting tongues a a, corresponding to the slitsb, and also constructed with 1ongitudinally-proj ecting tongues e e,corrponding to the slits d, substantially as described.

' FRANK M. OVIATT.

Witnesses:

Louis C. V. HOHMAN,

FRANK D. BENTLEY.

